Colliery Roland
| Colliery Roland | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1856 | ||
| End of operation | 1928 | ||
| Successor use | Commercial space, park | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 27 '57 " N , 6 ° 52' 46" E | ||
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| Location | Muffled | ||
| local community | Oberhausen | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | Oberhausen | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The bill Roland was a coal - mine in Oberhausen .
history
In the Dümpten area around 1841, several mining companies in search of coal reserves found what they were looking for and in 1847 they formed the “Roland” union .
This began in 1847 in Dümpten on the border between Oberhausen and Mülheim an der Ruhr with the sinking of the first shaft . Ingress of water, which could not be managed, forced an interruption of the work until 1852. The use of a steam pump was used to drain the water so that the shaft could start operating in 1856.
A small weather shaft was added in the 1860s. The relatively small mine field soon required greater mining depths and technical modernization. Shaft 1 was sunk deeper and made larger. At the same time, a briquette factory was set up in order to be able to sell the mined lean coal cheaply.
In 1904 the “Roland” colliery became the property of Harpener Bergbau AG , which continued expansion measures. In 1905, the mine field of the neighboring United Sellerbeck colliery was connected and the Roland mine was expanded while “Sellerbeck” was shut down. Shaft “Roland” 1 received a large headframe .
After economic fluctuations in the First World War , Harpener Bergbau AG again implemented expansion plans. Next to shaft 1, shaft 2 was sunk from 1917 to 1921. This was equipped with a two-storey Tomson frame and took over the main funding . At the same time the old weather shaft was thrown off .
Shutdown
The unfavorable sales situation for hard coal during the global economic crisis led Harpener AG to shut down the "Roland" colliery because of its stocks that were no longer economically viable at that time. The shutdown was carried out in 1928.
Shaft 1 was filled in and shaft 2 was kept open until 1937, when it was then covered. In 1958 the neighboring Concordia colliery was supposed to clear it up again. A new headframe was erected. The onset of the coal crisis then brought these plans to a standstill.
Current condition
The "Roland" colliery can no longer be seen today. Nowadays you can find Oberhausen's first self-storage company there, Lagerexpress GmbH. Founded in 2014 by Mario and Marcel Hochmuth. The southern part is laid out as a park.
literature
- Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr. 6th expanded and updated edition, Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor Hans Köster KG, Königstein i. Taunus, 2006, ISBN 3784569943